Police look for 4 cellphone thieves

Police in St. Clair Shores, Warren and Detroit are looking for three men who have been stealing cellular telephones from several area T-Mobile stores, according to St. Clair Shores police.

In one incident in Detroit on June 27 they attacked a security guard and threw him to the ground, said St. Clair Shores Detective Jay Cohoe. The guard was not seriously hurt.

“We are working with T-Mobile security to identify the suspects,” Cohoe said. “It is apparent they could be dangerous.”

Cohoe said an unknown black man walked into the T-Mobile store at 19690 Nine Mile Road at 6:30 p.m. June 15 and stole an apple I-Phone 5. The man walked over the to the phone display and ripped the security tether/lock that was attached to the phone and fled.

On June 28 at 7:35 p.m., three black men walked into the same T-Mobile store but were recognized by employees as the same men who were involved in a similar robbery in Detroit the day earlier. The men split up and acted as if they were talking on their cellphones while in the store.

Cohoe said at some point one of the men was heard saying on his cellphone “Forget this. We’re out.”

They grabbed display cellphones and two I-Phone 5s and a Samsung cellphone and tried to flee from the store.

The suspects ran into the glass door causing it to shatter. An employee attempted to stop the men from fleeing and was gabbed and thrown to the floor, Cohoe said.

“The three men along with a fourth man committed a similar robbery at a T-Mobile store on Livernois in Detroit,” Cohoe said.

Anyone who can identify them from the surveillance photo is asked to call St. Clair Shores police at 586-445-5305.